BMW R75/7 R100/S Road Test

The BMW R75 is a global Battle II-era motorcycle and sidecar combination produced by the German company BMW.

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a range of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in reaction to a submission from the German Army.

Preproduction models of the R75 were run with a 750 cc side valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine unit for the R75 device. This OHV engine unit later proved to be the basis for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The 3rd side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios through which all four and reverse gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. Additional motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time of analysis it became clear that the Z?ndapp was the superior machine. In August 1942 Z?ndapp and BMW, on the urging of the Military, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (selected the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also arranged that the production of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, manufacturing 20,000 each year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach factory was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were assembled by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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